Unprecedented hike in UK Research and Innovation minimum PhD stipend will seek to place it in line with national living wage Read more

New research has found the number of University of Michigan employees who work either full-time or part-time on diversity, equity, and inclusion-related efforts now tops 1,100. Read more

The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights received a record number of complaints three years in a row under former president Joe Biden’s administration, hitting an all-time high of 22,687 in 2024. Read more

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has written a letter to Google asking the firm to reconsider its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Read more

The fate of the Chinese-owned app is uncertain, but the effects of banning it would ripple through campus communities. Read more

The Trump administration on Wednesday issued guidance suggesting that international students and scholars who participated in protests against the Israel-Hamas war could lose their visas and face deportation. Read more

India-based periodical disciplined by bibliographic group Crossref after sleuths claimed ‘sneaked references’ had been injected into metadata Read more

A California bill that would allow higher education institutions to prioritize slave descendants in college admissions is drawing harsh critique from some civil rights experts. Read more

Coming off one of the most challenging years for the higher education business in recent memory, it would be easy to carry a glass-half-empty outlook into 2025. Read more

The Trump administration left heads spinning across higher education and elsewhere after ordering a temporary pause on all federal financial assistance, including billions of dollars in grants and loans to colleges. Read more